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Local officials Please create projects for a specific office if it’s missing, “relate” it to this project, and add a link to the index (below). The related project is where to add profiles. This is a global project, although wording may have been extracted from American sources. Please come collaborate! Additional references more than welcome. Local Government From Most Americans have mo...
Please add Geni profiles with the occupation of "weaver" to this project. is a method of fabric production in which two distinct sets of yarns or threads are interlaced at right angles to form a fabric or cloth. The other methods are knitting, lace making, felting, and braiding or plaiting. The longitudinal threads are called the warp and the lateral threads are the weft or filling. (Weft or wo...
Portal to Geni Projects dedicated to "occupations." No profiles please - Add profiles to the projects listed below instead Please consider creating occupation sub-portal projects to group together allied occupations. A Abracadabra.... (magicians and illusionists) Abstractors Accountants and Bookkeepers Administrative Assistant - see Secretaries Agricultural Labourers Air Traffi...
An electrician is a tradesman specializing in electrical wiring of buildings, transmission lines, stationary machines, and related equipment.Electricians may be employed in the installation of new electrical components or the maintenance and repair of existing electrical infrastructure. Electricians may also specialize in wiring ships, airplanes, and other mobile platforms, as well as data and ...
Please add Geni profiles with a known occupation of " domestic worker " to this project. Note that "Servant" redirects to "domestic worker" on Wikipedia. from Wikipedia A domestic worker is a person who works within the employer's household. Domestic workers perform a variety of household services for an individual or a family, from providing care for children and elderly dependents to housekee...
Clothiers made and sold woollen cloth. The occupation of clothier was compatible with the status of yeoman .A "clothier" could be:* One man and his family, who together performed most of the steps of cloth making* A person who employed up to 30 weavers* Something in betweenThe majority of clothiers were not large manufacturers. Many small independent clothiers combined cloth-making and farming ...
butler is a domestic worker in a large household. In great houses, the household is sometimes divided into departments with the butler in charge of the dining room, wine cellar, and pantry. Some also have charge of the entire parlour floor, and housekeepers caring for the entire house and its appearance. A butler is usually male, and in charge of male servants, while a housekeeper is usually a ...
Executioners A judicial executioner is a person who carries out a death sentence ordered by the state or other legal authority, which was known in feudal terminology as high justice . Please add Geni profiles of those who worked as executioners to this project. For the Scandinavian witches project, please see this link: " Scope and job From Wikipedia The executioner was usually prese...
A farrier is a specialist in equine hoof care, including the trimming and balancing of horses' hooves and the placing of shoes on their hooves, if necessary. A farrier combines some blacksmith's skills (fabricating, adapting, and adjusting metal shoes) with some veterinarian's skills (knowledge of the anatomy and physiology of the lower limb) to care for horses' feet.From Wikipedia Historically...
=Gamblers= Please add profiles of gamblers to this project, and insert links for "notables" in the lists below. Collaborators, please expand the lists and references. Gambling is to take risky action in the hope of a desired result. Gamblers wager with money or something of value (referred to as "the stakes") on an event with an uncertain outcome with the primary intent of winning additional mo...
Add professional cabinetmakers and furniture makers to this project. You can visit HistoryLink to find out which projects include your ancestors. == History ==Before the advent of industrial design, cabinet makers were responsible for the conception and the production of any piece of furniture. In the last half of the 18th century, cabinet makers, such as Thomas Sheraton, Thomas Chippendale, Sh...
Add professional accountants and bookkepers to this project. You can visit HistoryLink to find out which projects include your ancestors. == History ==The history of accounting is thousands of years old and can be traced to ancient civilizations. The early development of accounting dates back to ancient Mesopotamia, and is closely related to developments in writing, counting and money; there is...
Town clerks (Municipal clerk, city clerk, village clerk …) From Wikipedia A clerk (pronounced "clark" in British and Australian[1] English) is a senior official of many municipal governments in the English-speaking world. In some communities, including most in the United States, the position is elected, but in many others, the clerk is appointed to their post. In the UK, a Town or Parish c...
Cooks in the family? Please add to this project : “Cooking is the art and science of preparing food for eating by the application of heat”. The term also includes the full range of culinary techniques: preparing raw and cooked foods for the table; final dressing of meats, fish, and fowl; cleaning and cutting fruits and vegetables; preparing salads; garnishing dishes; decorating desserts; and ...
This project contain important manufactorers who are involved in the production of glass articles General description from Wikipedia: ... ... üssner&pg=PA179&printsec=frontcover öhmens_Glasindustrie_und_Glashandel/yalneKgCveMC?hl=de&gbpv=1&dq=quolfinger+iglau&printsec=frontcover
Grain merchants buy grain from farms and sell it to consumers. Between the buying and the selling, they are concerned with the quality, market value, shipping, processing, and storage of the grain. In effect, they are liaisons between the farmer and the eventual user or consumer of the grain. The regulation activities of the grain merchant create an efficient market for grain around the world. ...
Documentary filmmakers From Wikipedia A documentary film is a nonfictional motion picture intended to document some aspect of reality, primarily for the purposes of instruction or maintaining a historical record. Such films were originally shot on film stock—the only medium available—but now include video and digital productions that can be either direct-to-video, made into a TV show or relea...
A maltster (also malster) was someone who brewed beer or prepared malt for brewing purposes. From Glossary of Brewing Terminology Malting was a trade in its own right, and maltsters generally independent from either the farmers who produced the barley or the brewers who consumed the malt, though some of the larger breweries conducted their own malting operations, especially from the nineteenth ...
Printers Definition - One that prints, especially one whose occupation is printing.In publishing, printers can be companies providing printing services and individuals who directly operate printing presses.This project is for those whose occupation is printer . Please link GENi profiles of those whose occupation was/is described as Printer to this project. Bold links are to GENi profiles; other...
A barber (from the Latin barba, "beard") is a person whose occupation is mainly to cut, dress, groom, style and shave men's and boys' hair. A barber's place of work is known as a "barber shop" or a "barber's". Barber shops are also places of social interaction and public discourse. In some instances, barbershops are also public forums. They are the locations of open debates, voicing public conc...
A hotelier is a person who oversees or manages a hotel. He or she may be the owner of the establishment, the chairperson of the board that operates the hotel, the chief executive of a hotel location or chain, or the general manager of the hotel. ===A Brief History===From Hotels: a brief history By Jacques Levy-Bonvin From antiquity to the Middle Ages The history of hotels is intimately connecte...
Linguists=A linguist in the academic sense is a person who studies natural language (an academic discipline known as linguistics). , the word is sometimes also used to refer to a polyglot (one who knows several languages), or a grammarian (a scholar of grammar), but these two uses of the word are distinct (and one does not have to be a polyglot in order to be an academic linguist). The followin...
The harmonica , also known as a French harp or mouth organ, is a free reed wind instrument used worldwide in many musical genres, notably in blues, American folk music, classical music, jazz, country, and rock. Wikipedia has a list of musicians that are notable for their harmonica playing skills: . Please add Geni profiles that meet that notability criteria. Music categories: Harmonica b...
==Sculptors== A sculptor follows the art or practice of shaping figures or designs in the round or in relief, as by chiseling marble, modeling clay, or casting in metal. > [Middle English, from Latin sculptūra, from sculptus, past participle of sculpere, to carve; see skel- in Indo-European roots.] This is a Geni occupations project.* Please add Geni profiles of practicing sculptors from any er...
Rail and bus conductors=This is an occupation project. Please add profiles of those who worked as a railroad, tram, bus or streetcar conductor (or guard). Please feel free to add translations and references to the project, although you must be a collaborator to do so. From Wikipedia: Conductor (rail) A conductor (American and Canadian English) or guard (Commonwealth English) is a train crew mem...